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Internet — The End is Nigh
The internet is dying. 57% of internet traffic is just bots. I don't agree with Cloudflare controlling a huge chunk of internet, but at least we get alarming reports like these. Bots generate more traffic than humans.
Article: PCMag
Social: Cloudflare Founder
Cloudflare report: radar
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Half of the IRL lobby are also illogical, braindead zombies whats the difference?
And they've started attacking!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1tvv0jw/robot_kicks_boy_in_stomach_during_performance
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I suppose we'll have a split, two webs instead of only one.
One of those two webs will have only bots interacting with each other.
The other web will have humans interacting with each other; and bots pretending to be humans and stealing from humans whatever they can find.
A dark future with AI
So what?
50% of all email sent is spam. That hasn't killed email.
I think there is a logical fallacy here because it assumes that there is some kind of cap on Internet traffic. Looking at percentages is the wrong way to look at things. If there is $X exabytes of human activity and we add in exabytes and exabytes of bot traffic, that doesn't change the human activity. I don't think it's right to think that bot traffic is going to "crowd out" the humans, which is what's being implied when you look at it as a percentage.
Soon every hair salon on the block will have their personal little army of bots posting comments, reviews, and inflating likes
The 80/20 rule of thumb states that the best 20% of contributions generate 80% of the value created.
In the case of bot contribution to creation of knowledge a 99/1 (bot/human) rule will be far too generous, the contribution of bots to the creation of new knowledge will be closer to 0% than to a small fraction 1%, even when the proportion or their contributions is far in excess of 99%.
Too ugly to show.
Instead of looking for a spike in Pizza consumption, we now gonna watch traffic graphs.
Next drone attack, you gonna see a spike on the local IX.
Not today, we have time.
Made by humans, Made for humans
The era of klankers.
i hate bots to the point im blocking bot ASN like AWS/GCP/Azure and others
Fuck, they've found the porn.
Ah yes, "Dead Internet Theory". We have dismissed that claim.
In all seriousness there is a huge conflation of terms here: everyone is a bot. You post content my political side does not like? You're a bot. You wrote a python script to pull down a paginated article (that some news outlets still do in 2026)? You're a bot. You're a Chinese LLM developer scraping for content? You're a bot. You're scalper hammering a ticket or collectibles website from 8 residential subnets? You're a bot.
I remember there was a bit of an oopsie when a government emergency services notification account on X was rate-limited for being a bot - no shit it was a bot, the X account was reposting from the emergency alerts system that was also sending people text messages.
Not all bots are created equal.
But seriously...
I miss the 1990s Internet. Even then there were bots spreading disinformation but it was a kinder, gentler place.
At least websites in the 90s didn't load 50mb of jank javascript...!
They are terminator agents searching for John Connor and Neo
Not for lack of trying.
Charity.bot.
Fuck me... If you get it you'll get it.
I think this is misleading. People use the internet more than ever. What has really changed is that AI has caused a massive increase in bot traffic. That doesn't mean the internet is dying.. it means bots are becoming a larger share of overall traffic. Am I right?
I totally agree here.
Also, one must keep in mind that the bot traffic is generated for a reason. Sure, a big part is just bots, spam and malware, background noise. But I suspect a big part of it is AI, webcrawlers and searchengines scraping the net, which if you think one step further is just another interface for humans accessing the internet. The classical way of accessing the internet by typing a URL into a browser is no longer the only way we access the internet, we might just as well talk to an AI and get the information that way. It's a different interface, but the source of information is still the same.
If we insist on looking at percentages only it gets kind of skewed if we do not take into account that a big part of the bot traffic is actually generated by human interaction, in one way or another.
Also, I wonder how they classify bots. If I order something online it might generate a bunch of api calls between manufacturer, seller and shipping. Are those api calls classified as bot traffic or human traffic? One single "human" interaction with a website might generate dozens of api calls, if you count api calls and similar as bot traffic that would skew the statistics enormously.
So... there is no point in having an information website anymore if only AI visits it and you get mostly just bots? Why would anyone try to gain visitors and present some information online?
Interesting point. I see a future in spamming the bots with misinformation. how can that be illigal as a bot is not a human.
Large part of the internet is SEO garbage. On their death, nothing of value was lost because it's just copy-paste crap they obtain from another SEO garbage. And I blame Sundar Pichai for lobotomizing google search and safeguards that allows shitty website to flourish the first page, even allowing, what was it? phising website I guess.
There's those that gain money from ads, from selling stuff, and other reason.
For the first type, they will cease to exist. Perhaps they should get a real job